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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: A&E
Fabric Type: 9780767065757
Graphics Memory Size: Box set, Black & White, NTSC
Legal Disclaimer: 0767065751
Maximum Color Depth: A&E Home Video
Maximum Focal Length: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 StereoEnglishUnknownDolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Metal Type: A&E Home Video
Pearl Type: AAED71374D
Publisher: 11
Total Firewire Ports: A&E Home Video
Total Metal Weight: 1
Total Parallel Ports: August 24, 2004
Total S Video Out Ports: 1357 minutes
A&E Home Video
1974
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
This landmark incomparable rememberance of world war ii includes rare interviews with veterans & survivors amazing archive footage & chilling narration by sir laurence olivier. Studio: A&e Home Video Release Date: 08/24/2004 Run time: 1199 minutes Rating: Nr
Amazon.com essential video:
Sir Jeremy Isaacs highly deserves the numerous awards for documentaries he has earned: the Royal Television Society's Desmond Davis Award, l'Ordre National du Mérit, an Emmy, and a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II. His epic The World at War remains unsurpassed as the definitive visual history of World War II.
The Second World War was different from other wars in thousands of ways, one of which was the unparalleled scope of visual documents kept by the Axis and Allies of all their activities. As a result, this war is understood as much through written histories as it is through its powerful images. The Nazis were particularly thorough in documenting even the most abhorrent of the atrocities they were committing--in a surprising amount of color footage. The World at War was one of the first television documentaries that exploited these resources so completely, giving viewers an unbelievable visual guide to the greatest event in the 20th century. This is to say nothing of the excellent, comprehensible narrative. Some highlights:
- A New Germany 1933-39: early German and Nazi documentation of Hitler's rise to power through the impending attack on Poland
- Whirlwind: the early British losses in the blitz in the skies over Britain and in North Africa
- Stalingrad: the turning point of the war and Germany's first defeat
- Inside the Reich--Germany 1940-44: one of the most fascinating documentaries that exists on life inside Nazi Germany, from Lebensborn to the Hitler Youth
- Morning: prior to Saving Private Ryan, one of the only unromanticized views of the Normandy invasion
- Genocide: this film is one of the most widely shown introductions to the Holocaust
- Japan 1941-45: although The World at War is decidedly focused more on the European theater, this is an important look into wartime Japan and its expansion--early 20th-century history that lead to Japan's role in World War II is superficial
- The bomb: another widely shown documentary of the Manhattan Project, the Enola Gay, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki
The World at War will remain the definitive visual history of World War II, analogous to Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. No serious historian should be missing The World at War in a collection, and no student should leave school without having seen at least some of its salient episodes. Rarely is film so essential. --Erik J. Macki
Average Rating: 
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I saw some of this series when it was first shown, and was delighted to get the whole thing, plus the additions. All in all, it and its judgements and positions have stood the time remarkably well. Naturally there are things not included, as the producer readily admits - ULTRA and its use were not known at all. The Olivier commentary is brilliant. Best of all, the war was then recent history and there is an impressive range of first-hand accounts from participants and eyewitnesses, their memories ... Read More
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This series has no equal. It is due in large part to the thoughtfulness and competent assembly and editing of a huge amount of archival footage. The fact that many of the protagonists, British, German, Japanese and American were still alive to be interviewed was most fascinating. Some of those interviews were absolute coups, such Himmler's adjutant. No amount of documentary film replaces real study, but for getting a lead on a subject one would want to pursue further, this collection is the best live ... Read More
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I watched part of this as a teen when was first shown. It made an unforgetable impression on me. This is the most complete WWII documentary series ever made. One part even has the creator explaining the criteria for scope of this project. A must-see for all who are interested in WWII history.
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What can you say that hasn't been said before about The World At War??
The A&E 11 disc set is a bargain, somewhat, and the visual remastering compared to the
original is a marked improvement. But I find it very irritating listening to the
remastered, 'processed' audio track. I've played these dvd's on numerous
systems and their all the same. The audio is not clear, it's muffled and the
volume has to be turned up way past normal, like they 'no noised' it to the
point ... Read More
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A valuable source of information on the war although from a British perspective. The narration held my attention. I would recommend the video highly to those individuals interested in viewing the emotional as well as the factual information through period newsreels and newscasts. The coverage is incomplete but then when has the news ever been objective.
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